Archives - 24 January 2011, Monday

NEW YORK - NEARLY four out of five women and three of five men say they believe texting, Facebook and other social networking tools cause new couples to jump into bed faster, a survey released by Shape and Men's Fitness magazines on Monday showed. Smart phones and laptops are the new ...

The 42-year-old man pleaded guilty in the High Court to one charge of raping his daughter in the family flat sometime in 2005. -- ST PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN FOR five years, a girl did not tell anyone that she had been raped by her father - until her teacher discussed fairytales during an E...

Transport costs saw the largest CPI increase in 2010, up 10.3 per cent compared to 2009. -- PHOTO: ST FILE THE overall cost of living in Singapore rose by 2.8 per cent for the whole of 2010, the Department of Statistics Singapore revealed on Monday. Excluding accommodation costs, the ...

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The App Store offers more than 350,000 apps to iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users in 90 countries around the world. -- PHOTO: AP OVER 10 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple Inc's App store. That's more than one app for every person on the planet. Gail Davis of the United Kingd...

The book cover of Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths To Keep Singapore Going. -- ST PHOTO: WANG HUI FEN THE following is an excerpt from the 32 hours of interviews Straits Times journalists held with Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew for the book Hard Truths, available in bookstores now. Q: Does yo...

SINGAPORE - A contestant's death in the Health Promotion Board (HPB) Lose to Win Challenge has prompted a safety review of its activities. Mr Ong Joo Aun, 54, collapsed after completing a two-kilometre brisk walk on Saturday morning, part of a fitness assessment for the weight-loss pr...

SINGAPORE : Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has spoken of the difference in the nature of students where at least one parent is a university graduate. He said if both parents or at least one parent has a university education, chances are that the home background will be more supportive f...

A disturbing video has surfaced on the Internet, showing a man trying to train a small poodle to beg on its hind legs. When the dog is unable to keep standing, he punches it, slams it against a door and tosses it around like a ragdoll. After each round of punishment, he props the stun...

BEIJING - CHINA has mandated that all schoolchildren undergo lessons on etiquette - the latest expression of concern over uncultured manners in one of the world's oldest civilisations. Teachers will be required to instruct primary school students in the intricacies of basic decorum, r...

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Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. Powered by WP Greet Box Singapore’s Infocomm Development Authority has announced a new grant of up to SGD15,000 (around USD11,600) for companies developing consumer internet apps a...

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SINGAPORE: The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) has announced its plans to bring forward the rollout of 4G in Singapore. 4G, or the fourth generation of wireless-mobile standards, provides users with mobile speeds five to 10 times faster than the current 3G speeds. Th...

HANOI - VIETNAMESE police have rescued dozens of weasels, porcupines and snakes destined for restaurant tables as part of a crackdown on the trafficking of rare animals, an officer said on Monday. Officers found 19 live weasels, 12 porcupines, 13 snakes and an endangered black-shanked...

One dollar banknotes and anti-North Korea leaflets are seen in a bag as former North Korean defectors and anti-North Korea activists prepare to release balloons. -- PHOTO: REUTERS SEOUL - NORTH Korea this month publicly executed two of its citizens for handling propaganda leaflets flo...

Ku De Ta SG, which owns Ku De Ta at Marina Bay Sands (above), says one of the partners of Ku De Ta in Bali had licensed the name for use here. But the Ku De Ta partnership says the name belongs collectively to the partnership and that it has not licensed the name to anyone. -- ST FILE...

BANGKOK - POLICE in Thailand have arrested 91 Rohingya boat people after they landed on the country's southern coast and are planning to deport them to Myanmar, they said on Monday. The Muslim, Bengali-speaking Rohingya of Myanmar are described by the United Nations as one of the worl...

SINGAPORE : Singapore has slipped to third spot in the rankings for the most globalised city in the world last year. The republic comes behind Hong Kong, which took the top spot, followed by Ireland, in the latest Ernst & Young Globalisation Index. The index measures the world's 60 la...

NEW YORK (AP) - John Miller, the NBC executive behind the "Must See TV" campaign, will lead a new group marketing sports programming as part of the network's merger with Comcast. The NBC Sports Agency will work with advertisers and broadcast partners while promoting the combined sport...

Rusty Rueff , On Friday 21 January 2011, 22:58 SGT At some point in our careers, we all face having to work for a bad boss . Unfortunately, just because we think they're bad doesn't mean everyone else does. No matter how much they frustrate us, bad bosses don't always get called out a...

HEY GUYS! SORRY FOR THE ALL CAPS, BUT IT IS EASIER FOR ME TO READ AS IM GOING BLIND IN MY RIGHT EYE.......SO HENCE IM NOT "YELLING" AT YOU ALL.......FIRST OF ALL EMAIL IS A WONDERFUL TOOL, TO USE AT YOUR DISCRETION AND AT YOUR CONVIENCE ,I DO HAVE A PROB WITH ALL THE CRAP WE ALL GET O...

Minister of Finance, Tharman Shanmugaratnam will deliver the Budget 2011 Statement in Parliament on February 18. -- ST PHOTO: CAROLINE CHIA THE Budget 2011 Statement will be delivered by Minister for Finance, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, in Parliament on Friday, February 18. A 'live' webca...

SINGAPORE: Standard Chartered Bank said it has signed an agreement with a subsidiary of GE Capital to acquire GE Money, a specialist in auto and personal loans in Singapore. The British-based bank did not disclose the value of the agreement, but said in a statement that the gross asse...

PARIS (AFP) - – The best way to not forget a newly learned poem, card trick or algebra equation may be to take a quick nap, scientists surprised by their own findings reported. In experiments, researchers in Germany showed that the brain is better during sleep than during wakefulness ...

SINGAPORE: Data released on Monday by the Department of Statistics (DOS) showed that the consumer price index (CPI) rose by 4.6 per cent on-year. Higher costs in transport, housing and food led to the price hike. DOS said that excluding housing, the consumer price index went up by a l...

Former Facebook president Sean Parker called The Social Network 'complete fiction'. -- PHOTO: SONY PICTURES MUNICH - FORMER Facebook president Sean Parker enjoyed the movie The Social Network in which he is played by Justin Timberlake, but called the plot 'complete fiction'. The film ...

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When it comes to chocolate desserts, no one does it better than Laurent Bernard Chocolatier . Formerly known as The Chocolate Factory, the newly renamed Laurent’s Café & Chocolate Bar has two branches at Robertson Quay and Portsdown road. Whenever I’m having dinner at the Robertson Qu...

One of the world’s finest designers (and wittiest one, at that), Jessica Hische , aids you with that million-dollar question with her handy flowchart , originally made for her students. I’m geeking out over how this flowchart was built entirely on CSS and HTML. Nice one.

MANILA - A PHILIPPINE politician blamed for his inept handling of a bus hijacking that left eight tourists dead said Monday he would not attend an inquest in Hong Kong for fear of being arrested. Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim, reprimanded by his own government for his handling of last year...